Does non-combat damage count for lifelink? Yep, all damage counts for lifelink, whether you’ve smacked your opponent in the face (metaphorically speaking), zapped them with a pinger likeFireslinger(though of course you’d have togiveit lifelink first) or caused two creatures to butt heads w...
"This might hurt less if you don't fight so hard. But I doubt it." - Liliana's Caress, M11 Commander is a casual Magic: the Gathering format, but below the surface of precons is a passionate community of spikes. The competitive Commander community builds decks that win as efficiently ...
One does it by slowing down the opponent’s clock, the other by skipping ahead a turn in mana development. But in terms of an opener, both are roughly equivalent.I really mean it when I say that threats are third in the pecking order when it comes to importance in an opening hand. ...
If you get killed on the field, you’ll take control of one of your comrades, living on to continue the fight. It keeps you in the action, and ensures that a single mistake made in the thick of battle doesn’t cost you vast reload times. As in War Thunder, there’s a slew of...
Experiment One: Being able to boost him for double value and ditch the counters at will to ensure he gets the next Evolve Trigger or dodge removal/combat damage is great. Mikaeus, the Lunarch: Comes in one +1/+1 counter bigger, taps to get 2 counters, and trades a single counter from...
The -2 here gives you tools to answer all of this stuff, though with the 'Goyf you need a burn spell as well as a creature to fight with. Bloodbraid Elf into Domri Rade seems good, and as I run Magma Jet, the +1 also makes me excited. Edit: Oh, also I intially scoffed at...
The first ability, which will forever be known as “Dorans your team,” means that all your dudes deal damage based on toughness, not on power. With the actual card Doran, this would lead to the same stalemates that already existed. While our 4/5 Tarmogoyfs would just bounce off each ...
but it does the job of being able to deal with an artifact or enchantment, and being main deckable. Cycling is such a great mechanic, as it just makes any niche card convert to a real card if the effect is inapplicable in that game. I also suggested Fetter’s as it has the life ...
This version does not require the forge.command file and it does not need to start the Terminal application as part of the start up process. If you update your OS to Apple OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion and try to launch a new version of forge that you will likely get a dialog which states ...
Adam’s Cube, on the other hand, has nearly three times as much removal as that bemoaned Draft environment. Our fearless leader is able to support aggressive decks in his Cube without having a reduced kill count. The answer resides in the creatures. Where I cut the shadow creatures from my...